Sentence examples for this was scarcely from inspiring English sources

And this was scarcely odd, because?

This was scarcely the first time that an attempt to control the Mississippi had failed.

And this was scarcely his only achievement that year, which John S. Rigden skillfully chronicles, month by month, in "Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness" (Harvard; $21.95).

This was scarcely the perfect weapon, but it could be relied on to fire two or three times per minute to an effective range of 100 150 yards without misfiring more than 20 percent of the time.

This was scarcely a sharp rebuke, but neither was it the message that the prime minister had grown accustomed to hearing from Republican leaders in the 1990s, the last time he had held office.

Again, however, this was scarcely new, as shown by Henry James, whose later tales are like prophesies of Antonioni; there is even one called "The Bench of Desolation," written fifty years before "L'Avventura," which brings together a man and a woman, by the sea, and discovers "the vanity, the profanity, the impossibility, of anything between them but silence".

But this is scarcely consolation.

This is scarcely unthinkable.

This is scarcely kind to choreographers.

In the event, this is scarcely achieved.

This is scarcely the voice of humility.